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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
kecpjng Pigs tM Orchards.

1t is desirable in keeping pigs in orchards
TO have them in as many lots as possible.
This is especially true when sows with
litters of pigs constitute the stock Nov
able pigpens, made SO as to be taken apart
and rut together again, not only accom-
plish this object, but enable the owner
to thoroughly fertilize different parts.
After the pigs have been kept under one
tree week OF so. remove them and their
pen to another. In this way the thrift of
both trees and pigs is made certain. Only
the sows need be confined, The small
pigs may be given free range to pick up
fallen fruit until they gradually wean
themselves.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29

Two cups corn merl, one cup of -four, a
tablespoonful of sugar, third of cup
of shortening, two eggs, one pint of sweet
milk, little salt, three teaspoons of bak-
ing powder.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29

Eight eggs, boiled hard, and while hot
chopped with salt and a lump or butter
the size of walnut. Press into deep
dish and serve cold.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29

THERE is man in Chicago who terms
himself terriologist. He can tell in what
county an Illinois terrier was born by
Analysing the under strata Of mud on the
doys back next to his skin.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
1,a6e,I iuti;nn t,,d1;no

Scald one quart of milk; add seven table,
spoontuls Indian meal, one teaspoouful
salt. one-half teacupful sugar, the same of
molasses, one teaspoonful ginger. Bake
three hours.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
THE COOK.
Graham Cookies


Two cups sugar, one cup sour cream,
one-half teaspoonful soda. Mix quickly,
roll and bake.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
WAR ANNALS.
,a,crs Of Both Armies Fighting
Their Battles Over
Again.
'o.es Of the Bottle. field, tho Weary
March, and the Cheerful
Campfire.
Old Midnight.
BY A VETERAN.

comes when the lines are wavering
I me conflicts heat,
on thc throbbing pulses Of battle
! lends the charge like whirlwind,
.;vinn the enemy back?-
aver was leader like him,
IN Black Jack!
knew, far-off, he was coming,
=, nearer it came, and near,
,lnd salute that greeted him,
"a swelling Union cheer.
II sight of that man on horseback,
l. flashing eye of black.
twist OF his great mustaches,
{nut Black jack!
! 70 was Joy and strength in his presence,
r though the field was red
the living fast recruited
he sNarming ranks of the dead,
4 rould always fight with Logan,
q could stand the fierv wrnck,
saw him tearing along the line,
n Black Jack!
ss long ago; and the chieftnin
Fla ouniled frcm no mortal foe
bowed his crest, they say, to him
fho strikes oil warriors low.
/ .; campfire we name him,
i tnin would Gull him back,
{lears are heavy without you,
Iear Black Jack!
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
What to Have for Seed.

Many make the mistake, says a writer in
the Indiana Farmer, of using the first
peas, beans, tomatoes, radishes, lettuce,
and quite list of plants, and allow what
IS left TO mature for seed. 1t requires but
short time for the effect of this kind of
work to show itself in lower grade of
products. The better plan is to select the
best, as they grow, for seed, not out of
what is left, but the best at first. You
want to save the choice of the crop for
seed instead of choice of the leaving.
In the garden supply of lettuce, radishes,
turnips, peas, beans, melons, squashes,
tomatoes. and all that class that mature
seed the first year can be saved to very
good advantage. If you secure strong,
vigorous plants and by cultivation induce
rapid growth, the best will gi 70 you plants
that will mature seed that you can save.
With field crops, such as corn, oats,
sorghum, or potatoes, it will often pay to
plant small plot for the especial purpose
of growing for seed, taking considerable
pains to secure the best growth, and then
selecting and storing the best for seed. It
is considerable expense to be obliged to
purchase seed of this kind every spring,
and especially SO when, by making the
proper effort, YOU can secure fully as good
as what you can purchase. But on no
account save the seed unless you have q
very good crop. Improve rather than al
low the seed to deteriorate. If you cannot
do this, it will be more economical to pur-
chase seed than to raise it. But with
proper care with quite a number of varieties
1t will pay to raise and save your own sup
plv of seed.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
E1ieG Liner.

Take one pound of Calls liver, half
pound of salt pork or bacon, thinly sliced.
Have your skillet hot, put the bacon or
pork in; while it is frying dip the liver
lightly in flour and fry in the pork fat.
Persons who usually do not like liver eat it
cooked this way and pronounce it excel
lent.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
Profit sm Oats.

Many farmers say there is no profit in
raising oats, yet others find them a profit
able crop. If the market price of the
grain is not profitable, the price paid for
young stock always is. The farmer who
sells oats and feeds his calves, pigs,
lambs, and colts all corn, or nearly so,
makes a mistake. Not u few men find
oats Improbable because they do not feed
them, or do not feed them properly; vet
more because they do not get the full
value of the straw. If oats are cut five
days earlier than is the common practice,
the straw is worth for feeding two-thirds
of its weight of timothy hay, and this
earlier cutting increases, rather than di-
minishes, the value of the grain. Of
course the straw must be kept bright. If
it is not cut until it is dead ripe /" and
then piled up after threshing to bleach
and rot it is not worth much for feed. But
the cutting, curing, and feeding being
equally favorable, three pounds of oat
straw are worth as much for winter feed
ing as two pounds of hay. True, the
other articles fed must have more al
buminoids than when hay is fed, but this
does not increase the cost of the ration.
cutting the crop when most TURNER'S would
store in NOW or under barracks, and feed
grain and straw together after running
through cutter and moistening. Cutting
oats little early also reduces the chances
of their lodging, and their liability to
lodge is the most serious objection to them
by farmers who have soil rich in nitrogen
and rather deficient in silica-a very poor
soil of all grains.-American Agricul-
tli3.iSt
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
Tea Cakes.

One dozen eggs, one pound of butter,
one pound of sugar, one pound and half
of flour, one-half ounce of nutmeg and
mace each, two pounds of clean, dry cur
rants; if the currants are added damp they
will make the cake heavy. These cakes
can be baked in small shapes, or in large
tin, and cut in squares they are far nicer
than most other tea cakes. Ice if you wish.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29

Boil some four or six dozen in capa-
hard. Then, after carefully removing the
shells, lay them in large mouthed jars and
pour over them scalding vinegar, we'll
seasoned with whole pepper, allspiece,
few traces of ginger, and few cloves of
garlic. When cold bung down closely, and
in a month they are fit for use. Where
eggs are plentiful the above pickle is by
no means expensive, and is relishing &C.
compartment to cold meat.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-29
Cream COdfsh.

Pick into small pieces the salt fish,
freshen with cold water, changing the
water two or three times. Put it into a
saucepan with half cup of boiling water,
and piece of butter size of an egg, little
cayenne pepper and slice OF onion chopped
very fine. Stir smoothly one tablespoonful
OF cornstarch in little milk, add cup of
milk, pour it over the fish, and stir con-
stan,ly until the butter melts and the whole
is we'll cooked. Break two or three eggs
into it and serve hot,
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
CHRISTMAS REUNIONS,

1t is a day when everyone who has had home
and has one no longer is reunited to the vanished
home and the loved ones that made it so dear
whether they still linger here have passed beyond
1t is day when those who have never had home
united in visions to ideal home, place where
the may rest and find peace. It day when
parents love to gather around them all their children
and grandchildren, and rejoice with them over the
great gift of God to the world and in the multiplied
mercies and blessings which that gift includes
Not all able to give golden gifts or gifts bought
with gold. But who is poor that on this Christ
mas day he may not bestow pleasant word on some
poorer than himself? who is so downcast that he
may not give a token of sympathy to some fellow.
mortal in Distress smile Of friendly recognition to
some forlorn one? Even cup of cold water given
in the name Of disciple shall not lose its reward
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
DIR. TALMAGE ON CHRISTMAS.

Christmas bells ring in family reunions! The
railway trains crowded with children coming home
The poultry, fed as never since they were born
stand wondering at the farmers generosity. The
markets are full of massacred barnyards The great
table will be spread ard crowded with two or three
or four generations Plant the fork astride the
breastbone, and with skillful twitch, that we
could learn, give to all the hungry lockers
a specimen of holiday anatomy. Florence is dis
posed to SOAR give her the wing The boy is fond of
music, give him the drum stick. The minister is
dining with you, give him the parsons nose. May
the JOY reach from grandfather, who is dreadfuly
old that he can hardly find his way to his plate,
down to the baby in the high chair, who with one
smart pull of the table CLOTH upsets the gravy into
the cranberry. Send from your table liberal por-
ton to the table of the poor of the white meat
well as the dark not combining your generosity to
gizzards and scraps. Do not, as in some families,
keep plate and chair for those who are dead and
gone Your holiday feast would be but poor fare
for them they at better banquet in the skies.
Let the whole land be full of chime and carol. Let
BELLS silver and brazen, take their sweetest voice.
and all the towers of Christendom rain music.
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28

costly and elaborate presents involves through indi-
rect ways much practical benefcence for the abrca-
ton of these high priced wares furnishes employ
ment to numerous industrious hands, and the money
expended therefor is distributed through channels
that bring means of sustenance to hosts of willing
workers. Let not fall into error or indulge in
narrowness of view as to this matter Lavishness
the part of those who afford to indulge their
propensities is not necessarily extravaganza On the
contrary, it furnishes trade for the merchant work
for the laborer and puts in circulation money that
would otherwise lie proftless to the community in
the Golfers of its possessors The rich less than
the poor, then, exemplfy the Christmas spirit in
giving in accordance with their means and their at
fectons and this unity of purpose and action is in
itself proof that all are touched alike with that
which comes alone from, "the dear God
who loveth u.s." " 49,
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
CHILD,S LETTER TO SANTA CLAUS.

The following letter to Santa Claus from small
maiden of ten received at the New Orleans Pic
ayune office addressed To Mister Santa Claus
Private to YOURSELF" and reading as follows: My
Dear Mr. Santa Claus, crismas is pretty near heare,
and want to try very hard and be good girl soyou
will give me plenty of things. want a white swis
cap for Alberther. I want some game to play that
won't require much geonies to play. I would also
like cloak for Alberther but that will fit all the
childrens Oh?!;:" Mr.. Santa Claus I'll be awfully
awfuly good if you will only give me tricicle for
crismas. won't ask anything else please, please
give me tricicle or 1 will be so disappointed
hope awfully you will bring me one. Please Mr.
Santaclaus grandma wants some cake and candy and
haint got the money to gratty her wish all the
money we got is to bye Ma pare of slippers with
don't let enybody this letter becous the slipper
business is secret. well must stop good bye dear
old Santaclaus good by P. S. don't forget My
Tricicle for pity sakes don't forget
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
CHRISTMAS LAND.
From the PHILADELPHIA daH:l

From the PHILADELPHIA CALI s"''-
Who has the key Of Christmas iahds 5'.'tf
,..Whenthe bonfire shines, -
And the holly twines,
Carolers sing-a merry band =
And stars are bright Ger that fair strand
Who has the key of Christmas land?
Light are the hearts in Christmas land,
In each group you meet
There are faces sweet. 't- -, :
Bosoms young and guileless are; there. =.
And brows not yet wrinkied with care
< Who has the key of Christmas land?
Dear baby hearts in Christmas land,
We want to be near,
And join in your cheer
When the tree with its strange fruit bends,
And you wait for what Santa sends
Who has the key of Christmas land?
Love has the key of Christmas land;
Oh, come, cherub love,
With wings like the dove. L
Spread over hearts thy light of peace,
Sow for harvest full of increase
Open the gates of Christmas land.
Open the gates of Christmas land,
There is much to do,
And the days are few,
Bid all men set charity free,
By thy grace let us see there be
None of Gods poor in Christmas land.
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28

Jotuns or C;7ecnes Of the frozen north, whose con-
sanguinity with the Algonquins seems unmistakable.
The hood, the costume, the sledge and the deer
all accessories of the northern wanderers, to whom,
from time immemorial, both Russians and Germans
have ascribed magical powers. Whose servant this
wanderer was supposed to be has been lost in the
long descent of centuries, but the probabilities
strongly in fvorof the god Thor the terrible bearer
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
REPENTANCE.

Last night dreamed old Christmas
Came knocking at the door;
I knew him by his long white beard,
And by the furs he wore.
And by his coat with pockets
Stuffed full as they could hold;
He pinched my cheeks, he kissed me hard
His lips were very cold.
He said, "I'm Grandpa Christmas
To all the girls and boys"
But oh! he fairly shook the house
His voice made such noise!
Perhaps hurt his feelings
Wouldn't kiss him back;
He slipped away, can't tell how;
Il ;Henever left atrack.
Tonight he's really coming
With budget and with pack;
I don't see how could do so
wished I'd kissed him back!
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
THE CHRISTMAS OFFERING.
WILLIAM CROSwELL.

We come not with costly store,
o Lord, like them of old,
The masters of the starry lore,
From Ophir's shore of gold;
No weepings of the incense tree
Are with the gifts we bring;
No odorous myrrh Of Araby
Blends with our offering.
But still our love would bring its best,
A spirit keeniy tried
By fierce Affections fiery test;
And seven times purified;
The fragrant graces of the mind,
The virtues that delight
To give their perfume out, will find
Acceptance in Thy sight.
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
THE OLDEN SONG.

Come, sing the olden song once more!
The Christmas carol sing;
With solemn joy, from shore to shore,
Let Earth her tribute bring.
And see fulfilled those prophet dreams:
That Hebrew vision old;
From Bethlehem's stall glory streams
That makes the future gold.
A golden future -health and peace
To all beneath the sun;
A time when wars and wrongs shall cease,
And heaven and earth be one.
Be this our trust, through long delay,
With no weak doubts defiled;
And be in all our hearts day
New born, the eternal Child!
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
CHRISTMAS CHIMES.

comes not for himself, but for another, whose
want he is. For Knecht Individually means servant.
Rupert also explains the costume and the deer for it
means bright red man" and plainly refers to the
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28

that the giving of gifts is often lavish and burden
some to point which destroys its true significance
This may be true in some instances, yet we believe
the "christian grace of giving'' never more
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28

that the Germans did because the Knecht Rupert,
who is supposed to bring the tree is obviously den
teal with Santa Claus, whose name meange of
Spanish and Frsian-tells of the old Spanish occu-
patton of the low countries And Knecht Rupert
reveals what the Dutch hides-that the visitor
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28

to the pagan day when Thor was the chief deity of
the trinity worshiped at Upsala, Wooden being on
his right hand and Frcco on his left. And there is
this merit about Santa Claus, altogether lacking in
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28

of the hammer in Icelandic sagas The connection
with the tree then becomes ineligible for it is be-
yond question that the goddess Eoster or Easter is
the same Aster or Ashtaroth, who was worshiped
as a sacred tree The Santa Claus myth is a
clear chrstianization of an old custom, going back
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
THE ORIGIN OF SANTA CLAUS.

We have adopted the anomaly of combining the !
tree with the mystery of Santa Claus. It is true s
Morris tribune., 1887-12-28
THE GRACE OF GIVING.

There is tendency to dispaage certain features of
Christmas observance. It is thought by some that
material considerations are made too prominent and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-28

The Market Company Emsersains
Guests I'm the Cold storage Rooms.

A nipping and frosty air and sections OF arctic
scenery awaited q company Of business men and
prominent citizens VINO accepted the invitation Of
the Washington Market Co. to inspect the work.
ings OF the new cold storage apparatus just COM
pleted In the market house. For this cool recep-
ton, however, the company afterward made
amends BY setting out lunch, garnished with
guests. Men have been ct work since last sum-
mer practically remodeling the B-street wing
OF the MARKET % AZ to accommodate
the cold storage apparatus. This work
was accomplished without interfering for one
hour with the business OF the market. The roof
erected under IL Now one passing through the
wing Will see above him on either side what ap-
pears TO oe three enclosed galleries. running 500
galleries which are spacious and contain many
apartments. that the cold storage Is operated.
Ease e % one Of these tie visitor w
Se, mas any in the room
and packed S like Int The ~1 Ms, are Of 00aS sn
ordinary ice-house. In a structure on the north
sde Is the apparatus that manutactures the cold
ny steam.pump through the pipes That run
through AL the cold storage apartments. But the
apparatus which Alternately condenses and eS.
panos ammonia The ammonia is expanded and
passed through pipes There are 5000 feet Of
ouiS PsPo VoA1ou IN TIC uIIne Sat AS tnc eA.
banded ammonia passes through 1t extracts
the heat nom the brine and reduces it 70
q Manitoba temperature. The valves and
pipes or the ammonia machine are thickly crusted
with frost ana Ice and the huge pipes leading out
OF the brine vat are coated with white, requiring
only the Introduction OF polar bear or two and
an ESQu1maux TO make the scene quite Arctic The
expanded ammonia, after doing its work, is recon-
denSed In q room above, and passes again through
the apparatus The brine also, after making the
circuit OF the building, returns to the vat TO 20
the ROUNDS again. The apparatus II 30 arranged
that the temperature can be regulated In
any OF the apartments The store rooms for
lsh will be kept at temperature OF 20 degrees or
less. Other store rooms will be kept at milder
temperatures ranging from 20 to so degrees &C
corning to the nature OF the goods stored. Pipes
are being run to connect the cold storage appara-
tus with the ref1gerators In the wholesale estab-
lishments north OF the market. At present Poto-
II Is desirable TO have water cold possible
artesan wells are being sunk, from which the sup
ply Will be obtained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-28


From the Memphis Avalanche.
1t win be remembered that In the Towler-Stivers
killing case In Grenada, the slayer OF Richard C..
Stivers refused any explanation to the cause OF
the killing. The following Is now given the true
version OF the affair. obtained through personal
friend and confidant OF Mr.. fowler, and to whom
he conf1ded the facts Mr.. fowler left his wife at
about 10 p. m. TO go on his regular business trip.
About IL the same night Mrs. fowler was
awakened by finding the bed clothing suddenly
thrown on her as she lay asleep, and the Rev. c.
SIivers standing by her bedside. She started TO
scream but the reverend nbertine begged her to
deslst and promised to retreat, which he did. Mrs
fowler the next day wrote TO her husband 10 re-
turn Immediately. On inquir1ng the reason OF his
being summoned home she at first evaded the
question but hnally detailed the circumstances OF
the insult to which she had been subjected, and
knowing the hasty temper OF her husband, begged
him not TO Kill Stivers but merely order MIN
away. Mr.. fowler did not promise either TO Kill
hum not to do so, but entering the house, whence
It. appears the dead preacher mad seen the inter-
view from the window and doubtless been warned
by nis guilty conscience OF its urpOrt, demanded
an explanation for his conduct For answer the
clergyman drew his pistol Immediately Mr. Tow
Ter clnched with him, and, turning the pistol
aside, drew his own weapon, and nred the fatal
shot. As stated at the time, the kew. c. Suvers,
before dying, completely exOnerated Mr. fowler
from all blame and admitted that he had deceived
the people OF Grenada In representing himself as a
holy man. 1t transpires also that ne had been
elected from gentlemans house for similar rea-
sons before coming TO Grenada
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-06-28
Awaislnx Excommunicasion.

THERE MAY BIZ NO FURTHER MESSAGE FROM ROME
CONCERNING DR.. MGLYNN.
The New York Sun to-day says: IL was learned
yesterday that the communication from Rome
which was transmitted TO DR.. McGlynn nearly
forty days ago was not merely a summons to ap-
pear at Rome. An ecclesiastic, who spoke with
authority, said last night:
1.-THE so-called summons was, In fact, O papal
bull OF accommodation OF DR.. McGlynn II the
doctor did not appear at Rome, or make applica-
ton for q hearing at Rome, within forty days.
When these forty days expire, which Will be on
the I'd OF July next, II DR.. McGlynn has not APP
peared at Rome or made the application for q
hearing there, he stands communicated. He
excommunicates himself by his own act No
further action OF the holy father Is necessary,
nor Is there any probability or any such action.
The eject OF an application for a hearing In
such case is a stay or the bull OF eXcommuni.
cation, but without such application the bull be-
comes perfect and com pete."